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What if...... ....the Japanese

Posted on May 03, 2010
What if...... ....the Japanese in World War II had an aircraft carrier/submarine that could have been used to threaten the Panama Canal and the west coast of America? Apparently, Japan did: Spring, 1946. Ten months after the end of World War II, an explosion rocks the Pacific off the coast of Hawaii...

Zeus Never Loved You. Pastor Van

Posted on May 02, 2010
Zeus Never Loved You. Pastor Van Oosten has a new post at Theology for Dummies on the enduring importance of Trinitarian theology for the "Christian in the pews." He writes: Some people seem to believe that the doctrine of the Trinity is irrelevant to how we live as Christians...

The Brits are so screwed. Peter

Posted on May 02, 2010
The Brits are so screwed. Peter Hitchens is detailing the reason that Britons should not vote for the Conservative Party in the forthcoming elections.   Mostly, the reasons come down to Conservative support for ceding independence to the EU: Already the EU's role in our government is huge, but camouflaged and often denied by the authorities...

The Higher Intolerance. An English

Posted on May 02, 2010
The Higher Intolerance. An English streetcorner preacher is arrested, handcuffed and hauled off to the pokey by a homosexual Community Support Officer in England for engaging in the crime of free speech, to wit, asserting that homosexuality is a sin...

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Fallen Human Nature. Students

Posted on May 02, 2010
Fallen Human Nature. Students get tired of their lockers being broken into and set up a video camera.  The thief they catch is their 49 year old gym teacher. Students sick of getting their lockers broken into and having their money disappear set up a cell phone camera to hopefully catch the crook in the act...

The Goebbels' Method of Journalism. Kenneth

Posted on April 30, 2010
The Goebbels' Method of Journalism. Kenneth Woodward at Commonweal writes: The New York Times isn?t fair. In its all-hands-on-deck drive to implicate the pope in diocesan cover-ups of abusive priests, the Times has relied on a steady stream of documents unearthed or supplied by Jeff Anderson, the nation?s most aggressive litigator on behalf of clergy-abuse victims...

Good intentions and fairy dust

Posted on April 30, 2010
Good intentions and fairy dust are like a glittering, yet invisible, and yet magical, shield against the evil of the world. I know this is wrong, but deep down I really think that an angel gets his wings every time a left wing political activist gets hurt as a result of their activist activities...

How was anyone supposed to know... ...that

Posted on April 29, 2010
How was anyone supposed to know... ...that an entitlement which provided new benefits to an additional 30 million Americans would actually cost more than it would save?  After all, we have so much more knowledge and experience now than we had last month when the bill was passed.

Only Communists would think that

Posted on April 29, 2010
Only Communists would think that it makes sense to actually implement bad science fiction plot ideas. It was Robert Heinlein, I believe, who wrote that the essence of science fiction is to take some idea or trend and play it out to its logical, if absurd, conclusion...

Joseph Goebbels couldn't have done

Posted on April 29, 2010
Joseph Goebbels couldn't have done it any better. The American Spectator outlines the how the mutually reinforcing effect of bias flogs non-stories into scandals.  Specifically, the New York Times gets out of context snippets of information from a lawyer who has a specialty of suing Catholic Churches, which it then publishes as uncritical fact, which then helps the business development of the

Fun with words. I've been reading

Posted on April 29, 2010
Fun with words. I've been reading several books on the early Nazi party.  "Nazi", of course, comes from the full name of the party which was "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" - the "National Socialist German Workers Party" or "NSDAP." "Worker" in German is "Arbeiter", which sounds a lot like "arbiter", "arbitrate" and "arbitrary", which got me wondering how "arbitrate" became "

Can a person be moral without God? Mike

Posted on April 29, 2010
Can a person be moral without God? Mike Flynn's Thomistic approach is better than anything I've heard in a bunch of debates on the subject. Mark Shea offers this gloss: In the course of it, we discover a) that Fundamentalist Christians who imagine that morality is impossible for an atheist simple do not know what they are talking about...

Dr. Helen asks the Question that

Posted on April 28, 2010
Dr. Helen asks the Question that needs to be asked... "Does Society Encourage Genital Assault Against Men?" Mmmm...well, I'm sure that it does, given all the depictions of the "groin shot" in movies and on television as a classic comedic trope. But then I'm also sure that the attitude that assaults on uniquely male characteristics are funny and that similar physical assaults on uniquely female

This is surprising....should this

Posted on April 28, 2010
This is surprising....should this be surprising? Arizona Hispanics support provision of law requiring proof of status. According to Hot Air, there is ambiguity in the poll, but that is a fair inference from it: I?ve got a question mark in the headline because, insanely, Rasmussen didn?t refine his sample to isolate the data from Latinos...

Crunching the Numbers. Joseph

Posted on April 28, 2010
Crunching the Numbers. Joseph Bottums looks at some interesting statistical information on the Scandal: The best sign of such hysterical moments may be the difficulty of anything sane or sensible being heard in them. As Newsweek noted on April 8, the surveys and studies over the past 30 years show ?little reason to conclude that sexual abuse is mostly a Catholic issue...

No Noah's Ark. Paleobabble reports

Posted on April 28, 2010
No Noah's Ark. Paleobabble reports that the purported discovery of Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat is a fraud. The Discovery Channel - the National Enquirer of Cable - will probably still have a three hour special on this non-event, like it did for the "Gospel of Judas...

Service above Self. My friend

Posted on April 27, 2010
Service above Self. My friend Carolyn Moebest has a wonderful essay reflecting on what it feels like - and what it means - to see her son enlist in the Marines.  One of the timeless truths of life is that "they also serve wo stand and wait."

From the Ministry of Truth files. Pro-abortion

Posted on April 26, 2010
From the Ministry of Truth files. Pro-abortion groups pressure "The Lancet" not to publish report on decline of maternal death rates in pregnancy. Pro-abortion groups applied pressure to the world?s leading medical journal to suppress a report into maternal death rates, it has been claimed...

Britain Apologizes to Pope Benedict... ...for

Posted on April 26, 2010
Britain Apologizes to Pope Benedict... ...for mocking memo drafted by 23 year old Foreign Ministry staffer. All things considered, this looks like the kind of thing that you might expect from a 23 year old who hasn't quite gotten past that stage of life which thinks "wouldn't it be cool if we acted like they act on whatever the British version of South Park is...

If only Mormon Boy Scout leaders

Posted on April 26, 2010
If only Mormon Boy Scout leaders could marry. A Portland jury awarded $18.5 million in punitive damages against the Boy Scouts of America for child abuse. This is the same case where the Boy Scout troop was sponsored by a Mormon church and the Mormon bishop had information about the child abuse but didn't report it...

The Socially Autistic Richard Dawkins. Other

Posted on April 26, 2010
The Socially Autistic Richard Dawkins. Other than a pathological lack of any ability to understand the social clues that most normal human beings possess, what else can explain Richard Dawkins comparing a rabbi to Adolph Hitler? Mariano Grinbank writes: Recently, Professor Richard Dawkins compared Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to Adolf Hitler...

Men and Women and the Issue of

Posted on April 26, 2010
Men and Women and the Issue of Separate Checks. From Dr. Helen: It seems the requests for separate checks tend to separate along gender lines. A reader e-mails: I waited tables all through my twenties, when I started getting "real jobs." Much to my chagrin and disappontment, I am now, at 43, back to waiting tables...

Great Moments in the Carter Administration. April

Posted on April 25, 2010
Great Moments in the Carter Administration. April 25, 1980 - The failed rescue of the Iranian-held hostages. This was the cap on the long slide of Jimmy Carter into the anchor position of American presidents.  Before this there had been years of Carter - or his administration - playing the shrewish, elite, self-righteous liberal and lecturing Americans on their sins, including racism,

Amazon Review Glen Cook's "The

Posted on April 25, 2010
Amazon Review Glen Cook's "The Swordbearer" Gathrid of Kacalief is ejected from his sheltered childhood by the Mindak Ahlert and, while fleeing from the Mindak's evil golem-like "Toal", stumbles across the Sword of Suchara and the Sword's protector, and the Swordbearer's esquire, Theis Rogala...

Maybe I'll Take the Kids. Probably

Posted on April 24, 2010
Maybe I'll Take the Kids. Probably not. Some deep intuition in the recesses of my mind tells me that Child Protective Services might take a dim view of my parental skills if I did. Big Hollywood likes "Kick-Ass" and finds the role of the foul-mouthed 11 year old vigilante to be an antidote to the "heroin-fuel of narcissism" which is the Disney channel.

"Don't Worry He'll Realize the

Posted on April 24, 2010
"Don't Worry He'll Realize the Irony Soon." - Another Downfall Parody. Watch it now or else!

Jesus, the Jew, on Matthew 25. Professor

Posted on April 19, 2010
Jesus, the Jew, on Matthew 25. Professor Ira at "Jesus and the Professor" is continuing his exploration of a Jewish understanding of Jesus' teachings. Ira looks at Matthew 25 - the separation of the goats from the sheep - and concludes: In Jesus? view, salvation depends solely on what one did, not on what one believed...

Remember when Liberals liked to

Posted on April 19, 2010
Remember when Liberals liked to say "Dissent is Patriotic"? So long ago now. It was 18 months ago. A lifetime, actually. Gateway Pundit has a clip of Chris Matthews and his liberal guests "wanking off" about their "deep and serious concern" that some conservative American figures might be engaging in sedition...

How was anyone supposed to know

Posted on April 19, 2010
How was anyone supposed to know that a guy who spent 20 years in a church that honored infamous anti-semite Louis Farrakhan would be anti-Israel/anti-Jewish? What a perfectly wild coincidence. Jewish support for Obama drops 36% since 2008. In an unprecedented move, the Obama administration announced last week that support of Israel will be ?balanced against other US interests...

Do you trust the Government? In

Posted on April 19, 2010
Do you trust the Government? In 1958, 73% of Americans said "yes."  Now, that number is down to 22%. For a democracy - based on the consent of the governed - that is a very bad thing.

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